Quotes About Genius

We can be sure of tale; We can only pray for genius

We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile. It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans.

Really, Watson, you excel yourself, said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

It is a question of cubic capacity, said he; a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

Alcuni individui, pur senza possedere il genio, hanno il notevole potere di stimolarlo.

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, he remarked with a smile.

genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

Orang berkemampuan rata-rata tidak tahu apa-apa yang lebih tinggi daripada dirinya. Tapi, orang berbakat selalu bisa menyadari suatu kegeniusan.

No me cabe duda que usted cree hacerme una lisonja comparándome con Dupin. Pero en mi opinión, Dupin era un hombre que valía muy poco. […] Sin duda, poseía algo de genio analítico; pero no era, en modo alguno, un fenómeno, según parece imaginárselo Poe.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains

If the Prodigy Mozart had any notion how much torment he might cause people who had done no harm to him, he surely would have confined himself to stickball with his friends." "I believe that particular piece was

The great Leonardo remained like a child for the whole of his life…Even as an adult he continued to play, and this is why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.

is perhaps difficult to imagine so creative a mind working without a single work of lexicographical reference beside him, other than Mr. Cooper's crib (which Mrs. Cooper once threw into the fire, prompting the great man to begin all over again) and Mr. Wilson's little manual, but that was the condition under which his particular genius was compelled to flourish.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work - was refused them?

Love for our neighbor, being made of creative attention, is analogous to genius.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

But nothing of all that the peoples of Europe have produced is worth the first known poem to have appeared among them. Perhaps they will rediscover that epic genius when they learn how to accept the fact that nothing is sheltered from fate, how never to admire might, or hate the enemy, or to despise sufferers. It is doubtful if this will happen soon.